Are the subcontinent boards more interested in protecting players than letting the truth come out?
It’s not that people are trying to protect players but it is a natural tendency. If you are the principal of a school you will punish the boys, and protect them even if they do anything outside. But the current commission has a larger ambit and if there is an unfair protection it will balance it out. Evidence is a much-bandied about word. Do you think there is going to be video records of malpractices? We don’t have the legality to take action otherwise. Shane Warne and Mark Waugh admitted to it and were fined. Take the recent story of the journalist corroborating Manoj Prabhakar’s story. The gestation of a human is nine months and in this case the story gestated for four years. If I were playing cricket and somebody approached me I would catch him by the scruff of the neck and take him to the manager. As for Prabhakar, he is finished with cricket, lost his deposit in an election and now wants to be in the limelight. Why didn’t he tell the management then? He says he was told to keep q
